the newest winning numbers in the state lottery are announced on the local television station every Saturday night, at the end of the news hour. people who are watching for the lottery numbers, will have their "watching" reinforced on:
a. a fixed-ratio schedule
b. a variable-ratio schedule
c. a variable-interval schedule
d. a fixed-interval schedule

In general, the longer the delay between a response and reinforcement:
a. the faster conditioning proceeds
b. the more effective the reinforcer becomes
c. the more slowly conditioning proceeds
d. the more likely it is that stimulus generalization will occur

When advertisers pair their products with attractive people or enjoyable surroundings, in the hope that the pairings will cause their products to evoke good feelings, they are using principles derived from:
a. classical conditioning
b. instrumental conditioning
c. observational learning
d. operant conditioning

3 Matching questions

bOperant conditioning is a type of learning in which:
a. responses come to be controlled by their consequences
b. an organism's responding is influenced by the observation of others' behavior
c. involuntary responses are slowly replaced by voluntary responses
d. a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to elicit a response that was originally elicited by another stimulus

cThe major difference between a CS and a UCS is:
a. the order in which they are presented
b. that one reliably elicits the response of interest prior to conditioning while the other does not
c. that during conditioning the response to one increases while the response to the other decreases
d. the strength of the response that each stimulus elicits

5 Multiple choice questions

Pavlov found that meat powder placed on a dog's tongue will make the dog salivate. In Pavlov's terms, the meat powder is:
a. an unconditioned stimulus
b. an unconditioned response
c. a conditioned stimulus
d. a conditioned response

a

d

b

c

Josiah checks his electronic mail several times throughout the day. Some days there is mail each time he checks; sometimes several days go by with no new messages arriving. In this example, Josiah's behavior of checking his electronic mail is being reinforced on:
a. a variable-interval schedule
b. a fixed-ratio schedule
c. a fixed-interval schedule
d. a variable-ratio schedule

5 True/False questions

c → In classical conditioning, the stimulus that is originally neutral in regard to the response to be learned is the:
a. unconditioned stimulus
b. unconditioned response
c. conditioned stimulus
d. conditioned response

True False

b → In general, the longer the delay between a response and reinforcement:
a. the faster conditioning proceeds
b. the more effective the reinforcer becomes
c. the more slowly conditioning proceeds
d. the more likely it is that stimulus generalization will occur

True False

d → In general, the longer the delay between a response and reinforcement:
a. the faster conditioning proceeds
b. the more effective the reinforcer becomes
c. the more slowly conditioning proceeds
d. the more likely it is that stimulus generalization will occur

True False

d → In general, the longer the delay between a response and reinforcement:
a. the faster conditioning proceeds
b. the more effective the reinforcer becomes
c. the more slowly conditioning proceeds
d. the more likely it is that stimulus generalization will occur

True False

a → In general, the longer the delay between a response and reinforcement:
a. the faster conditioning proceeds
b. the more effective the reinforcer becomes
c. the more slowly conditioning proceeds
d. the more likely it is that stimulus generalization will occur